A while ago there were requests to provide the GT2003 presentations as low-bandwidth audio only.

I have made a small example with the first minute of Steven's talk, could people test it on various platforms before I do the whole thing? Please report here indicating platform.

MP3 example file can be found at http://www.codeconsult.ch/clients/gt2003/00-introduction.mp3

I've tested it on macosx with ITunes, plays ok, title and copyright are shown in the info fields.

Audio quality is, well, lame. I used the phone preset to make these files as small as possible (should be about 6MB for a 40-minute talk). People with enough bandwidth can get the videos anyway.

Here's how I did it. Never used lame before, suggestions are welcome:

-open movie in QuickTime Pro
-File menu, export, "export audio to WAVE"
-Shorten wave file for this test, using audio editor (Spark ME)
-Use lame to convert to mp3:

  lame --preset phone \
  --add-id3v2 \
  --tt "Cocoon GetTogether 2003, Steven Noels, introduction" \
  --ta "Copyright (C) 2003 Apache Software Foundation" \
  00-introduction.wav \
  00-introduction.mp3

(Tried -tc for copyright but it didn't show in ITunes).

-Bertrand



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